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On Sep 22, 11:22 pm, "'Mike'" wrote:
"Bob Hobden" wrote in message

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Went out this morning to move my car before the street filled up with
commuters vehicles and my front gate was gone. It was a wrought iron one
we had had for about 25 years, most annoying. Neighbour says he saw two
men running down the road at about 11.30 last night carrying a long ally
ladder so looks like the scrap men were around last night.

Yes, they did an entire street's gates around here a few weeks ago.
Followed by the bronze plates from the war memorial.

Before I buy
another gate, if I can get one to fit, how do others secure their gates?
This old one just hung on two hooks set in the brick post.

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Bob Hobden
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from the W.of London. UK

You drill a hole in the pin above the gate and either put a split pin in,
(not too secure) or a small nut and bolt or a rivet and rivet the end over

OR

you take the top pin out of the brickwork, which is more than likely a bit
complicated because of the nature of the bit built into the brickwork,
hang
the gate on the bottom pin then put the top pin in upside down onto the
gate
and brick this into the brickwork again. No 'just lifting the gate off'

But I suspect a decent go with a jemmy will just pull the pins out :-(

Chris

Think positive - the methods suggested are well tried and proved succesful

Bill